Williams v. City of Akron

Baird, Judge.

Elmore Williams, Jr. appeals from the decision of the Summit County Court of Common Pleas, which affirmed the decision of the Akron Civil Service Commission terminating Williams’s employment. This court affirms.

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Elmore Williams, Jr. had been an officer in the Akron Police Department for nineteen years when he tested positive for marijuana in a random drug screen conducted by the department in August 1994. Approximately one year earlier the police department had instituted a zero tolerance drug program that provided for random drug screens of all officers. The officers were…